Chauncey Wright Quotes
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I carry a lot of muscle easily.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
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I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.
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The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
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When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance, said the Ellen Ward of my dream, that woman I hate and fear. I am sure she meant some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning together from the vertical which produces the false arch.
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I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
